Research Ethics
Arguments for Association & Causality
Measuring & Designing Quant Research
Experiments, Surveys, & Content Analysis
Analyzing & Interpreting Quantitative Data
100
This ethical perspective focuses on balancing the potential harms and benefits of scientific research.
What is Utilitarian Ethics?
100
The foundational belief that all things or objects exist in reality separate from our perceptions and interpretations of them.
What is Objectivity?
100
This refers to variables organized into separate, non-overlapping categories.
What is the Nominal Level of Measurement?
100
This is achieved through careful manipulation of the independent variable and control of alternative rival explanations for the observed set of effects on the dependent variable; the purpose of research design.
What is Experimental Control?
100
Descriptive Statistics that reduce the data set to one number that best characterizes the entire sample.
What are Measures of Central Tendency?
200
This governing body of researchers is responsible for establishing and implementing formal research codes of conduct.
What is the Institutional Review Board (IRB)?
200
These are made when a theory has sufficient power based on past research to specify the exact nature of the relationship between concepts.
What are Predictive Claims?
200
This specifies as precisely as possible every operation, procedure, and instrument needed to measure the key indicators of a construct.
What is the Operational Definition?
200
The effects of each separate independent variable on the dependent variable.
What are Main Effects?
200
The measure of central tendency most appropriate for describing nominal variables.
What is Mode?
300
A study of obedience to authority that violated participants' right to be treated with honesty.
What are the Milgram Studies?
300
The result of converting phenomena into measurable quantities.
What are Variables?
300
This form of measurement requires a range or set of scaled responses that are ordered from least to greatest amount or from smallest to largest size along equal points on an instrument.
What is the Interval Level of Measurement?
300
The method of collecting self- and other-report information from certain groups of individuals or the general population about their knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, feelings, values, perceptions, and behaviors.
What is Survey Research?
300
This shape of this frequency distribution graph is most accurately described this term.
What is Positively Skewed?
400
This is understood as a function of being left alone to lead your personal life without interference from others.
What is Privacy?
400
An entire set of people or messages that have been selected based on a common set of characteristics.
What is a Population?
400
In this type of research design, a sample of data is collected at one time point to explore relationships among variables identified in the research question.
What is a Cross-Sectional Survey?
400
This term refers to a question that asks two things simultaneously, leading to measurement error.
What is a Double-Barreled Question?
400
The set of statistical tests used when the IV and DV are categorical and continuous variables.
What are Parametric Tests?
500
This refers to having a chance to choose whether or not we want to participate in a research study.
What is Opting Out?
500
This refers to a measure's ability to predict an individual's behavior in certain situations.
What is Criterion-Related Validity?
500
In this type of research design, researchers assess levels of the dependent variable at several points prior to and following the manipulation of the independent variable.
What is the Time Series Design?
500
A well-designed set of messages pertinent to a given research question or hypothesis.
What is a Message Population?
500
A recent study found that collaborative conflict strategies and relationship satisfaction were correlated at r=.67. The r-value tells us this about the correlation.
What is the Magnitude (strength) and Direction?